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atlene-sims · 2 years ago

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Aspiration Point - A Prosperity Challenge

It’s a new year and I am once again starting a new Sims 2 challenge! I’ve tried (with varying levels of success) too many BACC recently, and wanted something rotational without too much restriction - so a Prosperity Challenge it is!

Rules can be found here - https://www.boolprop.net/viewtopic.php?f=218&t=62

But the TLDR version is that you roll random households to found your hood and play each household for the same amount of time until the birth of the 5th generation.

SimCity Housing Association is proud to present Aspiration Point, a new housing project south of the city with plenty of space to expand and grow. 4 families have uprooted their lives in the city to move to Aspiration Point, seeking more space, home ownership, or just seeking a new start.

The Armstrong Family

Bradley Armstrong (left) and his little sister, Claudia Armstrong (right), are seeking a new life in Aspiration Point after their mother sadly passed away. While they are both only teenagers, Bradley was able to sell the SimCity Housing Association on letting them move, particularly after he mentioned money from his mother’s estate!

The Noel Family

Luc Noel (top right) moved in with his wayward older brother Frank Noel (top left) to make sure he was taken care of now they were both getting on in years. Frank never did settle down and start a family, but Luc did. Luc was not expecting the sad accident that left his grandkids, Emeline Noel (middle), Matthias Noel (bottom left) and Roland Noel (bottom right) without their parents. Now as well as taking care of his deadbeat brother, Luc is trying to raise his three grandchildren. With the unexpected growth of his household, he packed up and moved them out to Aspiration Point.

The Martinez Family

Aaron Martinez (top left) and Maria Martinez (top right) were high school sweethearts who had their oldest daughter Delfina Martinez (bottom right) in their final year of high school. This didn’t stop them both from going to university and getting good degrees, however! They did wait until after graduation to have middle child Micaela Martinez (bottom left), and little Soraya Martinez (bottom middle) followed not long after. Now they’ve decided to move to Aspiration Point to have a bit more room, and are considering expanding their family even more. SimCity Housing Association was very keen to add university educated sims to the Aspiration Point community!

The Davis Family

Islay Davis and her wife Fenella Davis, adopted their son Blair Davis when he was only a toddler, and have cherished giving him a good life and education as he’s grown into an adult. They were distraught when Blair’s wife walked out on him for another man from Champs Les Sims, leaving Blair to raise their 2 year old son, Micheil Davis. With nothing but heartbreak and reminders left for Blair in the city, Islay and Fenella moved the family out to Aspiration Point for a fresh start for Blair and Micheil, and maybe even an easy retirement for the two of them.

#ts2 #the sims 2 #ts2 gameplay #ts2 blog #screenshots #propserity challenge #ts2 prosperity challenge #aspiration point #rotational gameplay #armstrong #noel #martinez #davis #neighbourhood storytelling

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orlafilmblog · 3 years ago

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Film Adaptation – Developing Our Idea

Today I felt a real turning point for our group after the screenwriting workshop and tutorial with Kate. Sitting down and having a proper in depth discussion with my group meant I now have a much clearer idea of what story we are going to tell and who our characters are. If anything I fell in love with our idea even more! Bonnie (writer) and Katie (director) had a call where they laid out what the story was going to look like, and we have deviated from the original quite a bit. I’m really pleased with this decision as I feel we can take some core elements from the short piece and create something new and beautiful from it.

We have so many ideas that it is hard to sum everything up, so I’ll wait until we have a finalised script to go into any more depth about the story. However one thing we are struggling with is coming up with an exact theme. We all know what we want it to be, yet putting it into the right words is proving difficult. We threw around a few ideas today, including but not limited to:

- Can hope be used to save a life?

- Will love propser despite hardship?

- Can love and death co-exist?

This is a very small list of some ideas. My favourite so far is the last one, as love and death are two of the main aspects in our film. They drive the plot forward, enhance the two main characters, and are the main cause of our major conflict. As Bonnie writes, hopefully whatever exact theme we have in mind will become apparent.

Another big decision we need to settle on is time period. Originally we were wanting it to be timeless. Nothing too modern, but we did not want to box ourselves into one committed decade. However Kate advised us against this, and I can see why. Currently we are conflicted between going full out Victorian wardrobe, an early 20th century look, or setting it in the 1940s. No matter what we choose, production design is going to be challenging (but fun)!

Today also inspired me into thinking more about the sound for the film. I won’t lie, I had not given it much thought yet. But Bonnie mentioned today that we would have the film being told through Joanna’s point-of-view (the ill bed ridden character of the pair). This has sparked a lot of ideas within me about how we can use off-screen sound to give insights to Sue’s side of the story and to convey Joanna’s frustration with being stuck in one place.

Our next steps are finishing the first draft of the script (you got this Bonnie!!) and preparing our pitch for next week. I think we have worked really well together so far and everyone has brought so much energy and passion to the table already!

#film adaptation

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imsfire2 · 4 years ago

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For the WIP, I'd love to know about 'The Bargain of Liberty' as that's a great title and the classicist in me is curious about the Pausanias' one, and curious about the cricket ones.

The cricket ones are connected; one is the text and the other is a supporting doc to help me keep track of things. It’s a long short story, set in the Guau-guau ‘verse, in which Cassian and Jyn and Bodhi play cricket for fun in the park, and end up getting challenged to a real match one weekend by the overweening captain of a local team, Empire Gyms. Of course they manage to put together a team and battle their way to an unexpected victory. I’m quite near the end and hoping to be able to post it fairly soon. I suspect it won’t appeal to all my readers though, because you need to know some cricket terminology and the rules of the game to understand what’s going on!

“Running away with Pausanias” was the tilte of a daily blog I wrote over the course of a month in 2015. I’d had a fantasy for years of travellling around Greece, retracing the journeys of Pausanias and writing about and drawing the places he visited as they are now. When I was made redundant from my last office job that year, I decided to treat myself to a month’s travelling, and do at least a little bit of this. I was able to cover parts of Athens and the easier-to-reach sites of the Saronic Islands and the Argolid (& would love to be able to do more!). At the time I meant to convert the blog into a travel book, but I’ve never got very far with the project as writing about my own experiences as a narrative felt very strange after years of writing fiction. I even tried converting the whole thing into 3rd person, to see if I could make it work as a lightly-fictionalised novel instead. So far it’s dead in the water; but it’s still in the WiP folder. The blog is still available, if you want to look it up. And I highly recommend the theme as a way to add a lot of extra interest to a Greek visit.

“The Bargain of Liberty” is an original novel idea, set in Tudor times; one of those “what if magic were real?” historical fantasies. The basis of the story is imagining that Queen Elizabeth the first of England and Mary, Queen of Scots, met in 1568 when Mary fled from Scotland. They fell in love, and appealed to the great astrologer and magician Dr John Dee to find a way for them to be able to marry. Dr Dee consulted his books of magic and found a way to strike a great bargain with an otherworldly spirit; provided the same freedoms were to be granted to all the people of the island of Albion (mainland Britain), then the spirit would make it so.

The main story is set 20 years later. The Two Queens have ruled in peace and propserity, over a very different Tudor Britain than the one in our history; a land where gender roles are barely relevant and are considered an embarrassing memory, and where freedom of sexuality, gender identity and religion are the norm. Also, the existance of magic, and the periodic interventions of spirits like the one Dr Dee worked with, have led to a very different balance of power across the whole world. To many people, Albion’s freedoms, and the Great Bargain of Liberty that created them, are admirable. But other, more reactionary, forces look on Albion as a land of corruption and sin, and long to see the Two Queens overthrown and “normal” behaviour enforced.

So I have a very over-the-top fantasy scenario, full of important nuances that need to be explored with care and tact, and a world-wide scale involving multiple different countries and cultures, which also requires a careful approach; and a story about spies and wars and heroics and the Tudor theatre, and Chrisopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway in a polyamourous relationship, and assorted OCs, all having adventures, and the future King James the 6th-and-1st as a rowdy young man who wants to be an actor, and diplomacy involving alliances and power struggles with west African and central American kingdoms and their respective tutelary spirits and types of magic, and of course the Spanish Armada, and the Inquisition (who are the Bad Guys). It’s all a bit of a handful and I’m not sure I can pull it off to be honest! But I still love the basic idea, and from time to time I have a little nibble at it.

Thank you for asking, and I hope this isn’t all too off-putting!

TL:DR; I have a bad habit of starting on big writing projects & then not finishing them.

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mrslandgraab · 5 years ago

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Not dead, just busy :D I have decided to attempt a propserity challenge and am now making my own townies for the first time but gosh after 2-3 townies I am always so tired and exhausted, I stop? I have 5 so far, so 25 more to go, I guess :D it is really, really fun though!

#prosperity challenge #oh and then i need to start building and actually make the families #which i already rolled the number of members + lifestage + gender for #it's gonna be...interesting

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gratitude73 · 2 years ago

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Gratitude Day 1309

My sleeping Lord, help me to always place all my trust in You, no matter what the circumstances are in my life at every moment. Strengthen my faith, especially during those times when I face challenges and temptations. May I never doubt that You are there with me, leading me and keeping me close to Your merciful Heart. Jesus, I trust in You.

I am so happy and grateful now that I have a loving connected relationship with my husband Ell ✨️ filled with joy love peace and compassion and forgiveness ❤️ thank you god thank you god thank you god ❤️ 🙏🏽

I am so happy and grateful now that I have a loving connected relationship with my best friends V and J and all is well filled with joy love peace and compassion and fun ❤️ thank you god thank you god thank you god ❤️ 🙏🏽

I am so happy and grateful now that I have a loving connected relationship with my family and lovely mum and all is well filled with joy love peace and compassion and forgiveness ❤️ thank you god thank you god thank you god ❤️ 🙏🏽

I am so happy and grateful now that I have a loving connected relationship with my God filled with love faith joy peace compassion and forgiveness ❤️ thank you god thank you god thank you god ❤️ 🙏🏽

I am so happy and grateful now for the magical outcome of the day the beautiful evening with my best friends V and J eating talking and laughing having a brilliant time the beautiful walk with my best friend V talking and laughing having a brilliant time the peace love and joy of the day ❤️ thank you god thank you god thank you god ❤️ 🙏🏽

I am so happy and grateful now that I am love I am joy I am peace and I am patience I am successful I speak love I speak joy I speak peace I speak patiently I speak successfully 😌 thank you god thank you god thank you god ❤️ 🙏🏽

I am so happy and grateful now for the good news coming my way today 🙏🏽 thank you god thank you god thank you god ❤️ 🙏🏽

I am so happy and grateful now for perfect health is mine 🙏🏽 thank you god thank you god thank you god ❤️ 🙏🏽

I am so happy and grateful now for all the money I am receiving I propser at every turn 🙏🏽 thank you god thank you god thank you god ❤️ 🙏🏽

I am so happy and grateful now that the holy spirit guides me in all that I do and say and my guardian angel is by my side to rule and guard to light and guide Amen 🙏🏽 thank you god thank you god thank you god ❤️ 🙏🏽

I am so happy and grateful now for the full healing and recovery of Paul Vooght Jane and my lovely mum ❤️ thank you god thank you god thank you god ❤️ 🙏🏽

I am so happy and grateful now for the beautiful home I share with my husband Ell ✨️ filled with joy love peace and compassion and fun ❤️ thank you god thank you god thank you god ❤️ 🙏🏽

THANK YOU GOD THANK YOU GOD THANK YOU GOD 💗 😊 🙏🏽 🙌🏾

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#gratitude #positive #feelingisthesecret #lawofattraction #selflove #manifestation #holy spirit #love #spirituality #holy mother of god #faithoverfear #faithblogger #jesusisthelightoftheworld #jesusitrustinyou

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harrisonigb220 · 4 years ago

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Week 13 - Assignment 3 Postmortem

Welcome back to a very special and final GDevelop-ment blog. This week I will be discussing my thoughts on Asteroid Field Escape, some feedback we got since last time, the things I liked, and where I would see the game going if development was continued.

Further Feedback

Last time I was discussing how we tested three different individuals within our class and the difficulty was too high which made it very hard to get conclusive feedback on our features. Well, it turns out the changes we made to the screen size, and movement speed paid off as almost everyone was able to complete the game and enjoy the features.

The powerup was one of the standout features for our playtester as they enjoyed being able to become the ship that they destroyed. There was some misunderstanding on how they acquired the powerup in the first level but by the second they understood what was occurring.

The boss fight was also a hit with it leaving the playtesting session on a high note with the difficulty being a good balance, with most playtesters surviving on very minimal life.

The Good

While not being my initial project, there are many things I really enjoyed and believe turned out very well.

The amount of enemies and range of different enemies added quite a bit of variety for the player, not only to fight and overcome, but also to play as.

Movement was something that also grew on me quite a bit, albeit had mixed reactions from playtesting, I felt like the weight of the ship and drag felt like you were in space unlike plenty of other games which have such precise movement that it doesn't feel like zero gravity.

Finally, the boss level. I absolutely love this level, and the use of the edge mechanic which the player could use to their advantage now being flipped and the boss is the one using it to add difficulty. If we had more development time I would have loved to create more bosses as hard but fair challenges for the player to overcome.

The Potential

If I was to continue developing the game there are several additions I would include into the game, and some changes I would make:

1. Add in a Beastiary which would allow the player to see how many pirates they have defeated, and once defeating so many they would unlock the ability to star the level as that ship.

2. Adding in proper fullscreen support

3. Adding more levels, bosses and enemies

4. More indepth cutscenes that feel like an addition rather than an after thought

5. More unique sprites

With these additions and changes I believe the game would be extremely fun and improve off what already makes the game enjoyable in its current form.

Finale

Well, it has been a long journey and I'm grateful for everyone that has been following my development blog as I've learned my own lessons in Game Development and how to develop a prototype for a game as a team.

Live long and propser!

#Week 13 #Assignment 3 Postmortem

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centrally-unplanned · 3 years ago

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"I am going to mortgage future propserity by accelerating global warming and enable an axis of autocratic/theocratic petrostates to flourish across the globe and invade their neighbors so when I drive to Albany biannually to listen to my shitty inlaws rant about how The Jews are responsible for rising gas prices I can get there 20 minutes earlier" speedrun challenge

one of the things that’s been lost in the recent “let them buy electric” kerfuffle is that there’s a sort of feedback mechanism at work where americans can’t estimate distance correctly and companies see this and are unwilling to put the electric cars that might serve them well on the market. the go-to cheaper electric car on the north american market is the $30k+ nissan leaf. one thing i’ve often found in twitter threads discussing it is americans who say that its 150 mile range simply isn’t big enough for their needs. however, if you’re commuting an hour each way to work, 150 miles is enough to stop in somewhere and pick up groceries. few americans even drive 50 miles a day for work. meanwhile, in europe and china, much cheaper options exist. the dacia spring sells in france for 17,000 euros, or under 20,000 usd, and has a range of 143 miles. the hongguang mini sells in china for the equivalent of 5000 usd and has a range of 100 miles. for many americans, either of these cars could easily replace their current vehicle, especially for those who live in cities, if companies were willing to bring them over. you can see the proof in sales of electric bikes, which now outpace electric cars and have the sort of price and range needed for <10 mile trips (not to mention, some have cargo compartments for grocery rides). however, given the high profit margins on SUVs (as well as america’s addiction to the idea that bigger cars are always safer), it’s unlikely that companies will want to undercut themselves with efficient smaller electric vehicles.

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christinegphillips · 5 years ago

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Lesson To Be Learned – Life Should Be Fun – So Live It

The biggest “lesson to be learned” in life is that it is meant to fun, full of laughter, love and kindness and if you haven’t got that in your life then you need to go and find it. I spent years being miserable and looking for my meaning in life, suffering from anxiety and depression and never knowing whether I would live a fulfilled life or not.

You see life sometimes takes over and I was at work and we did a lesson to be learned session after delivering a major project and it hit me like a ton of bricks. You see most of us including me go through life being unhappy in work, unhappy in our relationship and just letting life pass us by. Then I thought why don’t I do a lessons learned session on my life and see what was the good and what was the bad, after all it couldn’t hurt could it.

Lesson to be learned – Photo by Prateek Katyal from Pexels

The things I uncovered during this session even surprised me. Even though I was an avid fan of the law of the attraction and the secret and had manifested many things into my life. I just wasn’t happy. I had been divorced twice through no fault of my own, I got made redundant from my job and life just seemed to be slipping away from me in an avalanche of negative emotions.

Then I was sitting there in my conservatory thinking about the biggest lesson to be learned so far in my life and that was that I felt like I had the life sucked out of me and I desperately needed to change things for the better. I was on my own and had just broken my wrist and was feeling sorry for myself when I decided to put a program together videoing how I changed my life for the better. (You can find out more about that here https://changeyourlifeforever.co.uk) It is now two years on and the below is what I did to change my life and how you can too.

My Lessons To Be Learned Tips

We all have choices in life – My second wife just out of the blue told me she didn’t love me anywhere and didn’t want me around. It came as such a shock at first I didn’t know what to do. I knew that she meant it however and there was no resolving the situation. So I could either feel sorry for myself and curl up in a ball (1st choice) or take life by the balls and do everything possible to improve my life (2nd choice). I chose the second option by the way and so glad I did too as I have taken the 1st choice before and it just leads to the gateways off hell so it is always better to go upwards and not downwards.

Don’t take things to heart – This was a big lesson learned for me as my ex just said. You aren’t the same man I married and I don’t look at you in the same way anymore. Now I could have taken this to heart and kicked back at her not being the women I met either, but you have to be the bigger person here. What I learned was, she was right, yes I admitted to myself that she was right but I also made a promise to myself that I would never end up in this position again. I looked at all the things I could have done wrong in the relationship and took accountability for it and changed it in the future.

It is your life, take control of it – Another massive lesson I learned was that I would do anything for my ex and my daughter and pretty much put my own happiness on the back burner. I also realized that I blamed her for not having a life myself too, which was wrong of me, because it was my life and I should have taken control of it. I should have been a little more selfish and done things for myself, but I only had myself to blame and it wasn’t her fault.

Life should be fun – I also realized that we were just not in live anymore and this meant there was no fun in our relationship anymore. It wasn’t either persons fauly but life lis meant to be fun. Maybe through all the stresses and the strains of bringing up children makes you grow apart. You should however always spend lots of time having fun.

You should wake up looking forward to the day – If you are waking up in the morning depressed because you know your day is going to be awful then you are not going to have a great day. Your subconscious mind is a powerful thing and when you tell it, you are not looking forward to work, you hate your wife, your life or whatever, it is going to believe it and put you in a darn bad mood. You should want to wake up and be challenged by the day ahead, look forward to the smiles from your kids, kisses from your partner and the achievements you will make at work through the day.

If you don’t like something change it – This is a majorly massive lesson to be learned if ever I heard one. Do you love your job? Do you love your relationship? Do you love your house? Just ask yourself some of those questions and more about whether you are happy with your life. Because if you aren’t you need to change them, we spend far too much time procrastinating in life which means we are back to the choices again. Which are (1st choice) Change whatever it is that is bothering you and never look back. (2nd choice) Either fix or accept the thing that is bothering you so things have a chance of getting better. (3rd choice) Do nothing and let pass life you by and just wonder what life would have looked like if you changed things earlier.

Do not regret your decisions – Make decisions and stand by them and if you want to change things in your life, then you also need to have a plan on what your new life will look like. When you can move from something crappy with a vision to making things better then you have something to achieve in life and something to aim for.

Don’t worry about upsetting others – This is your life not theirs. You cannot hold yourself accountable for anyone else’s emotions. If they cannot see that you are unhappy and don’t support you then they never will. You need to know that you have to move forwards in life and you cannot let others stop from you from having fun and living the life of your dreams.

Find new friends and new surroundings – The other massive lesson I learned was that there are loads of people out there in life that want to spend time with you, that appreciate your sense of humour, your kindness, your personality and why would you therefore want to spend time with anyone that doesn’t appreciate it.

Have courage – We can sometimes be scared of changing things in our lives because we don’t know what the future will hold. But what if you knew you were leaving one miserable life for one that was going to be the biggest adventure you could ever have and you would feel a million times better in life, would you take that option then? Of course you would so sit down and see what your life should like and set off with a plan to live your life to the fullest.

So there are some of the biggest lessons to be learned I went through in my life. Now I have a new beautiful and amazing wife and we spend most of our time laughing and enjoying ourselves. Now this isn’t luck it was planned and if you read some of my other posts you will see how we met and how LOA brought us together in life.

What it did make me realize though is that even at the ripe old age of 47 we can change our lives and we can move on and we do deserve a happy life and to spend it with someone that adores us and not someone that brings us down. So please make sure you look at the lessons learned in your life and look to improve on them and do something to change it.

You deserve to have a great life too, full of happiness and laughter and I hope to also see you on my transformation program too where I help you every day make a better life for yourself too.

In the meantime I hope you have a propserous and fulfilled life full of love. Best wishes Scott

Lesson To Be Learned – Life Should Be Fun – So Live It published first on https://changeurlifeforever.blogspot.com/

#personal development #positivity #self help #confidence #law of attraction

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key2rebeca-blog · 6 years ago

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The Queen's Predicament

Rudrani was tapping anxiously on the metal handle of the throne with the manicured nails of her left hand....she was waiting for the high priests of the kingdom....as she was now faced with the biggest crisis of her reign....and she could not take a decision without consulting the holy men, whom she was counting upon to show some way out of this conundrum...

The year was 2149....the map of the world had been redrawn after the 3rd world war, which led to massive casualties and had wiped off more than two-thirds of the human race. Democracy had failed mankind, and therefore the world had gone back to adopting the old ways of accepting the rule of kings and queens.....as humans have found out with bitter experience how devastating the consequence can be if the power is held by the public, rather than one individual whose orders everyone had to follow...

And everyone in the country of Suvarnamati followed the orders of Rudrani....she was the revered monarch of the most powerful country in the world....which now controlled two-thirds of the fuel resources of the world.....and therefore called the shots in most of the global trade transactions.....thereby ushering in an era of propserity for the people of Suvarnamati... Rudrani looked at herself in the large mirror kept by the side of the throne....There was no doubt that she was still the most desired woman in Suvarnamati, not only for her power and intelligence, but also for her beauty and sec , even at the age of 38 years.

The door of the royal conference room opened, and Rudrani saw the three holy men walk in wearing their white robes....She showed due respect to the high priests by standing up and bowing her head slightly....The monarch needed to show due respect to the high priests....and that she did....before settling back on her throne....

The high priests bowed in front of the monarch.....before Rudrani asked them to sit on the three other chairs of the council room..

There was an uneasy silence that prevailed for a few seconds....all of them knew what they were about to discuss....and it will not be an easy discussion.... It has been a year since Rudrani's husband, the late king, left for the heavens....he was succeeded by his wife, Rudrani and her 20 year old son Karan....Suvarnamati had but one rule which had been laid out by the high priests, whose sermon was considered to be mandatory for everyone to be followed, even by the royalty...and that rule was that only the wife or the 2nd born child of the reigning monarch could sit on the throne....Karan, therefore, despite being the prince was not entitled to wear the throne.

So it was Rudrani who had succeeded her husband to the throne....but she knew that she had to marry again....to bear a second child who will succeed him.....to prevent the country getting into a state of chaos and anarchy after her reign ended....she had therefore called for the royal battle of men....where the strongest and the most skilled men of the country competed to claim the hand of the widow queen....

The event was held at the royal Coliseum....where the knights fought intensely till a winner emerged....and that man was the powerful senator Suryakant. Rudrani was not happy with Suryakant being the winner of the event and getting the right to claim her hand....she knew that he was leader of the conspiracy to slay her late husband....but the senator was too powerful and she did not have enough evidence to implicate him...

She had no other option but to declare him the winner....and once she did that she would have been forced to marry him.....and bear his child thereafter who would sit on the throne after her.....she knew that it had always been part of his evil plan.....but even though she despised that consequence she had no option but to accept that fate...

But fate intervened....there was one knight wearing helmet and armor who challenged Suryakant before she could declare him the winner.....Suryakant was surprised but had to accept the challenge.....he was sure that he was going to win....but it was not the case....the other knight seemed to be fighting with purpose and intent.....and despite getting several blows he held on to his ground and finally managed to beat Suryakant.

Rudrani finally spoke...."I have put a lot of hope on your holiness....and am sure that you will be able to devise a way out of this impossible situation that I have landed in."

The chief priest looked at the queen with sympathy....and said...."The law of the land is etched in stone, your highness. What do you suggest us to do?" "Change the law. You know this cannot happen!"....Rudrani thumped on the metal handle of the throne.

"If destiny so desires, then who are we humans to challenge it?.....It was you who has declared the prince winner in the battle of men.....so if you do not want to abide by the law then you will have to relinquish the throne."

Rudrani's face turned pale....she was aware of the consequences....at the time of declaring the winner of the battle of men, she did not know that the winning knight was her own son Karan. Apparentlly Karan could not bear the eventuality that his mother's hand will be claimed by the man who had a big role to play in the death of his father. He had therefore fought against Suryakant and had managed to defeat him.....unwittingly becoming the chosen suitor of his own mother in the process.

And if Rudrani did not abide by the holy law now, then she will have to let go of the crown....which will open way for Suryakant to become the ruler of the country because of his clout....which she can never let happen at any cost.

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automaticvr · 7 years ago

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I attended the VRLA conference at the Los Angeles Convention Center on May 4th and May 5th. In this episode, you’ll get to listen to eight interviews with VR developers, including Lazlo Ring from Ultrahaptics, Vivian Tan from Beast Inc, Lesley Klassen from Flip Side VR, Cosmo Sharf, the co-founder of VRLA and Mindshow, Scott Martin from VR Planet X, Jason Briggs from Mecha Mayhem, Ahsley Cooper and Brady Wright from Rave Runner and Peter Funkuchen from Propser XR. Questions for Lazlo Ring from Ultrahaptics (1:58) - Tell us about Ultrahaptics. - Is there an SDK available for this? - Is this available for both Mac and Windows? - Where do you export your templates to? - Is it compatible with Unity? - Any plans for WebVR or WebXR? - How do the haptics work? - Are there templates for games? Questions for Vivian Tan from Beast Inc (5:05) - Do you consider this a game or VR experience? - Is your ultimate goal to go from VR to AR in multiple devices? - What devices are you looking at supporting? - Did you create this in Unity? - What is the biggest challenge you face as a developer in VR? - Would you say it’s an advantage to be a newbie working in VR? - How big is your development team? Questions for Lesley Klassen from Flip Side VR (10:37) - Tell us about you VR animation program? - How do you bring in your own avatars? - How do you inhabit multiple avatars? - Can each person have a teleprompter? - Can you create your own set? - How do you upload your set? Questions for Cosmo Scharf from VRLA and Mindshow (17:00) - Give us an overview of the companies here at VRLA. - What do you think of the turnout and do you see the VR Industry growing? - What do you think is going to be the must-have killer VR app? - What are your thoughts on the market for the Oculus Go? Questions for Scott Martin from VR Planet X (27:13) - Give us a quick overview of this experience. - Are you planning on making this an interactive experience? - How long did it take you to create this? - Are you also a designer? - Did you storyboard this and do recommend other developers do so as well? - Explain the storyboarding process for VR. - What tools do you work with? - Are you a coding-developer as well? Questions for Jason Briggs from Mecha Mayhem (36:59) - Give me an overview of Mech Mayhem. - What did you use to create this? - Is there a graphic advantage Unreal vs. Unity or is it totally up to the designer? - How is it easier to create graphics with Unreal? - Do you use C++? - What is blueprints? - Will blueprints translate to C++? - Is blueprints a plugin? - What is the biggest challenge you face as a developer working in VR? - What is the biggest technical challenge in VR? - How do you approach QA? - Are there automated tools for QAing VR? - How big is your team and what do they do? - What is your advice for someone getting into VR development? Questions for Ashley Cooper and Brady Wright from Rave Runner (44:59) - Tell me about yourselves. - Talk about Rave Runner. - What did you use to create the game? - What was your process and workflow for creating the game? - Did you create in-game tools for the choreography? - When are you planning to release the game? - How are you licensing the music for the game? - What is the biggest challenge you face when developing a VR game? - What is the biggest challenge you face from a design perspective? - Talk about the challenges of making controls feel intuitive for players. - What is your take on using realistic motion to interact with objects in VR? - Where can people check out Rave Runner? Questions for Peter Funkuchen from Propser XR (55:46) - What is Prosper XR? - What is your involvement with the XR Alliance? - What type of experiences are you involved with? - Where does your funding come from? - Where can people learn more?

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Are You The One Recap: Gio Olympics 2016—Everyone Is A Fucking Loser

Wooohoo, were back. Last week was a fresh and raging shitstorm and I gotta say, I was really looking forward to this week and holy shit did it not disappoint. Im sure cast members took a long, collective groan when they saw this episode and remembered that bitchy girl on the internet is going to destroy them the next day in the recap.

So lets give the people what they want, shall we?

They all are like, “FUCK WE SUCK AT THIS” after getting 4 beams, 4 weeks in a goddam row. Prosper suggests a good old fashioned orgy, because hes a thinker! They all just need to have sex morethats clearly what theyre missing.

PROSPER: There was a moment last night, when she was sandwiched between the two Finnish dwarves and the Maori tribesmen, where I thought,

Gios like hey Prosper, thanks for having my back when I acted like a psycho on TV back there and Prosper is like Id really like to be excluded from this narrative.

Gios like I tried to fight Stephen because of principle and is like if I let one person do it, everyone will. Gio is like an anamorph with some of the shit he says. Everytime he says something that sounds so fucking stupid you want to shove your head into a blender, he morphs further and further into his final form: Donald Trump.

Julias like “I know I should be sad that everyone is fighting over me, but like, Im so happy.” Its not her fault shes so popular!! Meanwhile Stephen is like “LOVE ME PLEASE” and is crying in the confessional. Jesus Christits looking like a tequila kind of night.

Everyone is like they havent even kissed yet!!! which is low-key embarrassing. Its one thing to be pussy whipped when you are, shall we say, getting said pussy.

Julias like KISSING IS HUGEits more important than sex!! Well, one can lead to a child and the other cant, so lets just go with thats wrongthough there are a million Mormon mothers out there who agree with you. Seriously, I had a more intimate relationship in 6th grade.

MORMON MOMS EVERYWHERE: Honey you can only watch MTV if its to watch that nice girl with the overbite who is ABSTAINING. Now come on, get your helmet on and go sell the word of God!

Kaylen and John learn they have a lot in commonmostly just that they cant stand their parents. Thrilling stuff really. I like them both so I wouldnt be mad, just more confused. Yes, very confused.

THE GAME

YES, best part of the season: the dudes exes are here. The girls are so pumped and the guys are trying to find the tallest building to jump off.

The exes come out and they are disappointing to say the least. Def bottom tier sorority status. But hey, yall got a free trip to Maui so like, good job. Congrats on dating losers, I guess it worked out in the end.

Tylers like my ex threw a box of wine at my head, which is a little embarrassing for several reasons. First of all, you just admitted you’re poor. I havent drank boxed wine since I was 19 in a frat house (aka Morgans mothership). And for maximum damage, you should always throw a bottle. And this has been another episode of: teaching someone very obvious things!

The dudes pair with their exes and they get asked questionswhoever answers the most similarly gets a point. Propser doesnt have an ex because his longest relationship was three weeks LOLLLLL. He basically has to sit it out because he ghosts too much. Im weak.

Question 1: Does your ex still think youre a good catch?

Gios ex is like, . Hes immature and Kaylens like Hes also fucking crazy, dont forget that yall. John, Asaf, Stephen and Cam get it right. Moving on.

Question 2: In one word how did your ex describe your relationship?

Gio gets a match because he said crazy and she said ridiculous. At least Gio fucking knows hes crazy. Admitting is the first step.

Morgans ex said that hes really smart and he acts like a stupid frat boy and its like, LOL okay. Whatever you have to tell yourself to sleep at night, honey. Maybe if you keep telling yourself you didnt date TFMs poster boy, you might retain some self-respect. I get it.

Toris like WOW hes so deep! Underneath all that muscle and that abnormally square head, he has a heart! Fucking incredible.

Question 3: Does your ex think youre ready to settle down?

Everyone says no. Im sure your matches are PUMPED. Johns very excited about this*fist bumps everyone around him* *pounds beer and crushes it on his forehead* *screams FUCK YEAH MERICA!*

Question 4:What animal best describes your personality?

Tylers ex is literally here to ruin lives, Im low-key living for it.

RYAN: What animal is Tyler? EX: Dog shit RYAN: Thats not an animal EX: RYAN: EX: RYAN: Okay, dog shit it is.

Stephen keeps getting them wrong and Gio keeps getting them rightmostly because every answer has been something like crazy, psycho or horrible. Gios like know yourself, know your worth.

Its down to John, Gio and Cam and Stephen is praying that John/Cam win. Putting your faith in Cam is like waiting for rain in this droughtuseless and disappointing (name that movie, Sam.)

Last Question: Does your ex think you still have feelings for her?

Cam, of course answers it incorrectly, so its John and Gio. Its also, dare I say, fucking lit.

John picks Kaylen and Gio picks, of course, Julia. Talk about the most awkward double date ever. This has given me life.

Julia and Stephen are talking and Stephen is like freaking out about Gio and Julia. He def very worried that Gio may be right.

STEPHEN: That plan is crazy JULIA: I know STEPHEN: So crazy. It just might work

Gios like “I NEED TO MOVE FORWARD OTHERWISE IM GONNA RUIN EVERYTHING FOR ALL OF YOU FUCKERS.” Basically, Gio is a giant asshole. Case closed, bring in the dancing lobsters.

There is a lot of mixed opinions here. Some want to vote Julia/Gio in because itll end this shit, some dont want to waste a truth booth.

HALF THE HOUSE: Im voting for Regina George because she got hit by a bus. THE OTHER HALF OF THE HOUSE: Im voting for Cady heron because shes the one that pushed her.

Prosper and Bagel are cuddling and laughing and let me tell you, I never saw this coming. Hes like youre sexy and Bagels like “I KNOW.” Our self-conscious little Bagel has grown into a confident young pastry *tear.

Tori and Morgan are in a room talking about repopulating the world and other totally relevant shit. Morgan is clearly hammered and is feeling on her ass, talking about her giant ass belly button.

Shes like I had to grow into my belly button and hes like “AH SO THATS WHY YOU GAINED WEIGHT.” YOOOOOOOO, that shit was loaded. Remember that big heart and big brain Morgan supposedly has? Best joke thats been told on this show.

He then is like NO NO THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT! and then is like I wish your ass was fatter. This whole conversation could honestly go down in history as the worst thing to ever exist. Wow, bravo to all involved.

THE WORLDS MOST UNCOMFORTABLE DATE AKA EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER WANTED

For the date, they are going wakeboarding, where Stephen hopes Gio accidently drowns, whoopsie. John gets up on the wake board and Kaylens like And yeah, she really does fucking suck.

BUT ENOUGH ABOUT THOSE TWO!!! Gio keeps touching Julia and shes like kinda uncomfortable, kinda not stopping it, which is the story of Julias life.

Mind you, this girl believes kissing is like the ultimate commitment while Gios like, a sex addict.

CHAZZ MICHAEL MICHAELS/GIO: I’m a sex addict. It’s my cross to bear. It’s a real disease with doctors and medicine and everything!

Gios like if I leave here without you I have nothing! and its like, we get it, youre homeless. She says they only have a physical connection and hes like “I KNOW ISNT IT GREAT!?!”

GIO: *plays music* You and me baby aint nothing but mammals so lets do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

They argue the whole time and Gio is like YOURE MINE. Honestly, this dude needs to be put in a psych ward, not a homeless shelter. What are you gonna do, Gio? Fucking share a cot with Julia? Make her hold the sign while you panhandle?

TRUTH BOOTH

Gios like “When I won the challenge, it was amazing. Like fate, karma, the universe, anal sex. But now I feel jipped. What did he expect? They were gonna start fucking on the wakeboarding date?

Gio believes there is still a chance that Julia becomes so afraid for her safety she finally submits to himhes really holding out for that.

Obviously, Julia and Gio are voted to the truth booth. Stephen is like “THIS COULD CHANGE MY LIFE” and its like, nah probs not but ok.

John is pissed because, hes right, they fucking blew a truth booth on this bullshit. Its like, very clear that they are not a match and they just blew this whole thing.

Gios like the house is gonna feel stupid AF and Morgans like NO, youre gonna feel stupidwhen were like, right and stuff. ANYWAYS YOURE FAT!

While Gios planning his hostile takeover of Julias bed, shes like should I cut my wrist horizontally or vertically?

Im on edge and drinking excessively. This is low-key nerve wracking. But the results are in.

Hey Gio? Are you a 90s band that peaked with one song about cocaine? BECAUSE YOUR THIRD EYE IS BLIND, BITCH. NO MATCH FOR GIO AND JULIA, DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS.

GIO, SADLY SINGING: I want somethin else *tear* to get me through this, semi-charmed kind of life, baby baby

And Julias like “there is someone out there for you, but that girl is NOT ME. FUCK YES!” Hes like in there crying and shes like checking her watch like, can we go now?

Stephen is crying too wtf is going on? Johns like consoling him and seriously, Ive seen less tears in my sorority house.

Julias like there, there Gio. Youve been through worse. Yeah honestly Gio, youve lived on the fucking streets. This is the least of your problems.

They come back and John is like and tells Gio that he needs to apologize to the group, Stephen and Julia. Honestly, Im a few tequila shots deep, because my life now consists of drinking alone and watching MTV reality shows, and Im all about John rn. Like is he really sexy or am I fucking hammered?

The conversation goes like: JOHN: Apologize GIO: no JOHN: please die

Julia thanks Stephen for being by her side and dealing with the fact she has never kissed him and he still tries to fight dudes twice his size. And finally they kiss. Aw, Julias first kiss! Babys first rave, babys first rave!

GIO, STILL CRYING AND SINGING: I wish you would step out from that ledge my friend.

The next day, Asaf and Franny are messing around and making out and hes like SHE VERY FUN, hehe. My mom and I discussed this whole thing in a riveting conversation below:

Morgan and the team get a meeting together and decide to do 100% new couples, except Asaf and Camille, because they are probs a match. This is a terrible idea. But Im here for it.

Stephen is like “THIS IS BULLSHIT! I want to pick Julia!” Im ready to put this whole relationship to bed, honestly.

MATCHUP CEREMONY

Ryan is wearing a fugly gray shirt that fades into plaid. Seriously that shit looks like the Sean John collection circa 11. Yikes.

Gio is up first and Ryan is like how did it feel to be wrong? Gios like Well sometimes the third eye has blurry vision, ya know? Who could say?

Gio kind of apologizes to Stephen, but not really.

GIO: I dont hate you because you’re fat; you’re fat because I hate you.

Gio picks Nicegirl Nicole, which is funny because she is the one who looks like she hates him the most half the time.

Prosper picks Franny and Ryans like OKAY, what the fuck are you people doing? Franny explains the strategy and Ryans like, Well arent you all just a bunch of loveable asswipes?

Stephen is up next. Hes like Waiting for that kiss was so worth it. Now hes just gotta wait for his balls to drop.

Ryans like “Are you going to pick Julia” and Morgans like bro Ill fucking haze the shit out of you bro if you fucking do thatFATASS! Of course, he goes against the grain and picks Julia. Ah, selfish men and criers, Julia has a type.

They start making out in front of everyone like Mormon moms everywhere are turning off their TVs, cursing that sinning whore Julia.

Tyler picks Bagel.

Cam picks Tori.

All the confirmed perfect matches at this point are like

Morgan picks Victoria.

Asaf says he thinks Franny is the one, which is very weird since a few weeks ago she was like his sister. Ryans like You mad youre not with her? and hes like STRATEGY, VERY NICE.

Asaf is like Acting like hes fucking jumping on a bomb instead of picking a girl to sit by for 3 minutes. John and Kaylen ARE last and they look miserable.

Kaylens like Gio I loved you and you fucking blew it and were wrong!!! Uh, you two arent a match either? Time to move the fuck on.

Of course, true to the martyr theme we got going here, hes like

RYAN:If you loved her you wouldnt have left her GIO: Honestly I feel so attacked right now

Suddenly Gio is saying that everything he did was for Kaylen. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.

Like a speech from a riveting sports movie, Camille is like NO YOU FIGURE THIS SHIT OUT AND HELP US WIN THIS MONEY and everyone claps along. Like yeah Gio, lets go out there and win this fucking game! And Gios likehmmm, maybe some money and future prospects in life would be cool.

Were waiting for the beams and they arent coming. HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT. This is not a thing rn. OH, but it isTHEY GET A BLACKOUT.

This means Stephen/Julia, John/Kaylen AND Camille/Asaf arent matches. I think all 10,000 people who watch this show are stunned into shock.

They just lost 250,000 dollars, as Victoria so eloquently screams. Looks like youll be drinking boxed wine forever, Tyler.

Wow, this shit. This shit practically wrote itself. How did Gios third eye not see this coming?

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